Month: September 2019
A string of flops have left the US box office down 6 per cent in the year to date. Several independent new films release are threatened with extinction as superheroes and sequels dominate the box office as streaming diminishes the box office appeal. Despite the release of Avengers, Endgame, the highest grossing film in history,…
Scooby-Doo an American franchise with several animated television series produced from 1969 is 50 years. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! For Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969. The basic story, of classic Scooby-Doo cartoons, has entertained three generations of children and today, the Franchise is cclebrating 560 years aired…
PLAYREADING OF “SEPTEMBER TIDE” Chapel Playouse (with bar) 308 Grays Inn Road WC1X 8 DP – see end of article for future events there and elsewhere in London! The Chapel Playhouse, near Kings Cross is a nice modern cosy clean venue for the kind of event I attended as reviewed below. It has its own…
On October 5, 2017, two New York Times reporters – Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey – wrote a bold but painstakingly recounted allegations from a string of women that they had suffered sexual abuse by Weinstein while he was running the movie company that carried his name, although he maintained that any sexual contact was…
German philosopher, Ludwig Feuerbach gave an immortal reply to the followers that modern life owes much to its Christian prototype, who asked if Christians had incubated some early version of modern ideas that eventually needed toppling Christianity itself to come to their own? Despite opposition to paganism, Christianity had to be smashed as the…
Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing is “open to considering” a higher cash contribution on its earlier offer of £32bn which received a cool reception from investors and UK bourse. The LSE struck its own big deal last month with the $27bn acquisition of data and trading company Refinitiv describe the HKEX bid as “unsolicited, preliminary…
Danilo Feliciano de Moraes, the son of former Brazil World Cup winner captain Cafu has died at the age of 30 after suffering a suspected heart attack while playing football near his family home in Sao Paolo.